Tiger Woods is now a guest contributor for Derek Jeter‘s The Player’s Tribune, which on Tuesday published a fiery response to a piece esteemed golf writer Dan Jenkins wrote for the December issue of Golf Digest, which was teased on the cover of the issue as “My (Fake) Q&A With Tiger.”

Although many stories from the December issue were made available online at GolfDigest.com, Jenkins’ story was not until after Woods’ piece was published on The Player’s Tribune. You can read Jenkins’ entire Q&A here. In the story, Jenkins asks and answers a long list of personal questions ranging from Woods’ first marriage with Elin Nordegren, his relationship with his swing coaches and caddies, as well as with girlfriend Lindsey Vonn.

“Did you read Dan Jenkins’ interview with me in the latest Golf Digest? I hope not. Because it wasn’t me. It was some jerk he created to pretend he was talking to me. That’s right, Jenkins faked an interview, which fails as parody, and is really more like a grudge-fueled piece of character assassination.

Journalistically and ethically, can you sink any lower?…. Good-natured satire is one thing, but no fair-minded writer would put someone in the position of having to publicly deny that he mistreats his friends, takes pleasure in firing people, and stiffs on tips—and a lot of other slurs, too.”

Golf Digest defended Jenkins’ piece in a statement to For The Win, noting that the story is labeled as “fake.”

“The Q&A is clearly labeled as “fake”, both on our cover and in the headline. The article stands on its own.”

Woods writes that Jenkins’ “concocted article was below the belt,” and that his management team sent a letter to Golf Digest asking for a written apology.

“The truth is, Jenkins has no idea how I think or feel about any of the things he claims to know about, which is why he had to make things up. Frustration or resentment because I have not been more available to him should not give him a license for an underhanded attack on me as an athlete, as a professional and as a person. I guess Golf Digest’s editors believe this is a good way to sell more magazines.”

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